YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 10, 2017

by Mark Gilbert, founder and CEO of MBS Accounting Technology & Advisory. Roughly 27 percent of startups can’t get the funding they need to take their business to the next level, according to the National Association of Small Businesses. Startups don’t demonstrate due diligence.

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Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 124

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

This is a question startup founders ask themselves multiple times a week. It’s not just the competition against the incumbents and the large tech platforms that founders has to worry about, but most importantly is the company’s performance and product market fit. How are we doing? The benchmarks are based on the US market.

Retention 109

Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. experiments to build a product, find customers, test business models and hire amazing people. Underpinning this growth is good governance. Risk and reward.

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Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2019

by Rick Mac Gillis , founder and CEO of Dragon Cloud , author of “ The New Frontier In Web Api Programming “ Startups, more than any other type of business, are sensitive to change. Therefore, startups are best advised not to tie their fate to third-party businesses. Because startups are fragile and fledgling.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 24, 2016

When we started Homebrew in 2013 our industry was, in retrospect, probably midway through a cycle where innovations were in business model rather than underlying technology. Observing a handful of companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Warby Parker, founders were taking those models and trying to apply them to other verticals.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Business Model Technology Software Review 48

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

When is the next payroll due? The fast options to get business cash are: Collecting from customers. For those that haven’t or those that want a refresher, here’s a list of common business situations that cause cash constraints on an otherwise profitable company: Rapid growth. Stop founder salaries. Old aging inventory.

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Recapitalization Forecast Software Review Finance 200

Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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Software Review Software Startup Finance 65

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Things snowballed from there.”.

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Cofounder Founder Startup Bootstrapping 164

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Business credentials and functional coverage. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor. Focus on prior results, not titles.

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Sweat Equity Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Startup 152

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. How you execute Customer Development varies, depending on your type of business. In my book, “ The Four Steps to the Epiphany ” I use enterprise software as the business model example.

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Customer Development Web Developer Customer 271

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. at exit due to dilution.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 206

Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

Since then, we’ve served 500+ unique customers, worked with 10+ space partners, pivoted our business model from B2C to B2B, signed on advisers, and have raised money from outside investors. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos kudos to ya’ll. That’s why when you get wins, celebrate them!

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Over a coffee in a small office in Cupertino (yes, their name is related to their founding hometown), we talked about how it was the right time to build a new networking company due to the confluence of three major trends: cloud, software defined networking (SDN), and the consumerization of IT. The discussion struck a chord with us.

Networking 153

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. at exit due to dilution.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

One of the reasons that we won this firm’s business was our willingness to work with their team to add features to our platform and devote resources to ensure that it met their current expectations, while soliciting their feedback for further product enhancements.

Iowa 113

Iowa Investment Bankers Cloud Software Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

Most of you new venture founders I meet as an angel investor seem convinced that starting the business is the hardest part. You look forward to the day when your business becomes self-sustaining, and settles into a long-term growth curve, ensuring financial success. Examples would include Pets.com, Webvan, and Blockbuster.

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Angel Investor Dilution Software Review Distribution 167

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. It is a symbiotic relationship.

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Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? What's the business model short-term and long-term? Who's the customer?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

A few weeks ago, we hosted a small dinner for a number of portfolio company founders, LP’s, and friends of the firm. It’s by far the longest time I’ve spent working on any one thing, and I feel very blessed to have been able to work with my partners, colleagues, founders, and collaborators. at exit due to dilution.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

SoCal CTO

MARCH 3, 2011

Many of the founders of these companies are surprised to learn that I'm willing to review what they are doing (maybe an hour) and get on the phone for an hour with them and provide free advice. Do you have a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? What's the business model short-term and long-term? Who's the customer?

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Fractional CTO CTO Hire NDA Technical Review 259

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! Votem is a complete end-to-end platform that takes your organization from registration through to results and review. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cleveland Software Review Iowa 62

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused.

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Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Microsoft entered the 21st century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Services (Cloud, ads, music) have a very different business model. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

For example, recently I was in the market for some transcription software. I headed to Google to search for “best transcription software” and read some blog posts that reviewed the best options. As CXL founder Peep Laja notes in his CRO agency masterclass : “…it’s permission-based marketing. most commonly popped up.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Few entrepreneurs find this scalable and repeatable business model because it’s not easy. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). They failed due to: the dearth of deals in the region that have IPO potential and. Lessons Learned.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 292

Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 3, 2020

Leveraging technology within your business model can lay down the path for improved productivity, smoother operation, and increased profits. The increasing demand for effective data analytics in the current business realm has brought predictive analytics to intertwine with machine learning algorithms.

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Technical Review Operations Artificial Inteligence Technology 52

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist. Who does it serve?

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Philadelphia Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Pennsylvania 62

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2011

‘Cause otherwise you’ll miss out on stuff like this: How I illegally got 25,000 students at the University of Texas to use my FastScheduler software in the 90′s. When should a company should focus on growth only, ignoring the business model and revenue?

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Cofounder Angel Investor Hosting Software Review 226

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns.

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Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 15:05] Do you think that the no headquarters model is going to impact startups going forward? [17:14]

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San Francisco Technical Review Incubator Silicon Valley 95

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2023

” That was the email one of Ethena’s founders sent to me and Melanie Naranjo on 8/21/21, a bit over two years ago. Hunter Walk: One of my favorite things to do for founders is speaking with people who are considering joining their startup. I know you’ll really enjoy chatting.”

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Employee Startup Vertical Leadership 113

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 29, 2012

The point of Alan’s post is to say that whilst having a freemium business model works for some companies it is not as widely applicable as everyone (including me) thought a couple of years back. company gave away its software to merchants that billed fewer than 50 customers a month. I think he’s largely right. The Needham, Mass.,

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Bankruptcy Software Review LLC Business Model 100

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not?

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2016

by Anand Srinivasan, founder of LeadJoint.com. Looking at the startup scene through the lens of TechCrunch or VentureBeat, one may not be faulted for assuming that securing VC capital is the default way to raise a business. Either way, you are not alone if you are bootstrapping your business. You are in the vast majority.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2004

Lee Gomes from the Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting piece (sorry, not a free site) in his Portals Column about Project Avalanche which is essentially a software co-op for businesses to share their applications and code. The website currently lists 33k artifacts of code with over 23k users.

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Software Review Software Open Source Detroit 60

BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

We are thrilled to announce our investment in Snyk, which is a developer-first security solution that helps companies use open source code and stay secure. in open source world where much of it is third party code. Dev first business model with budget from security? —?we Founder-market fit ?—?GuyPod

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Open Source Security Cofounder Software Review 60